*woof*
Posted on 11/19/2007 5:01:13 PM PST by SwinneySwitch
Editor’s Note: Women are active participants, and often the masterminds, behind the world’s third most lucrative illegal activity, after gun and weapons: people smuggling. In a four-part investigative series for the Spanish-language newspaper La Opinión, reporter Claudia Núñez uncovers the lives of women involved in the human trafficking business in Texas, Arizona, New Mexico and California.
“Gaviota” (not her real name) has six phones that don’t stop ringing. Her booming business produces net profits of more than $50,000 a month. She has dozens of customers lining up for her in a datebook stretching three months ahead.
Gaviota is not exactly a college-educated professional, much less a businesswoman in a legal enterprise. But she has found "coyotaje" (illegal human trafficking) to be her best option of keeping the promise she tearfully made to her two children: "As long as they don’t kill me, you won’t live in poverty."
Gaviota is one of dozens of women along the southern border of the United States who are active participants and, often, the masterminds behind the world’s third most lucrative illegal industry, after gun and weapons: human trafficking.
Experts, authorities and the smugglers themselves agree that human trafficking networks are entering a new era, in which women have ceased to be the victims – smuggled across the border and often raped along the journey – and have become the ones that pull the strings in smuggling people ("goats", "chickens" or "furniture,” as they call the undocumented).
"The old story of the man who runs the ‘coyotaje’ business is now just a myth. It’s finally coming out that the big business of human trafficking is in female hands. As long as they make it known that they are women, they have lots of business all along the border," explains Marissa Ugarte, a psychologist, lecturer and....
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oh wait...never mind...
You thought that, too...
Female coyotes ping!
If you want on, or off this S. Texas/Mexico ping list, please FReepMail me.
New?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1597900/posts
‘Sister Ping’ Convicted in Smuggling Scheme
The one next door to me was never picked up either.
I thought they had the first one pretty well nailed down too.
“Her booming business produces net profits of more than $50,000 a month.”
Fifty grand a month tax free for a peasant. Amazing!
What, they knock over garbage cans and eat house cats, now? ;)
Usta be one on 22nd ave. in Gulf Shores, Al. Course she’s gone now.
Better yet, start naming names and putting a stop to it.
Looking for ... some wild and crazy American Foxes!
You mean Hillary’s natural supporters are NOT yipping little bitches and bitchy lap dogs!
Not in San Fransisco...
Yip, yip, yip, yip. Ki, yi!
ping
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